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Principles on Climate Obligations of Enterprises. Was a member of the Expert Group on Global Climate Change Obligations of Enterprises, which drafted these principles and an extensive legal commentary on them. The Expert Group included Brian Preston, Tianbao Qin, James Silk, Jaap Spier, Elisabeth Steiner, Philip Sutherland and Daniël Witte, (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing 2018).

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice in a thoroughly revised English translation by Michelle Kosch (New York: Oxford University Press 2007). German, originalChinese

Contents: 1. Biography; 2. The Focus on the Basic Structure; 3. A Top-Tier Criterion of Justice; 4. The Basic Idea: Justice as Fairness; 5. The First Principle of Justice; 6. The Second Principle of Justice; 7. A Rawlsian Society; 8. On Justification; 9. The Reception of Justice as Fairness; Conclusion.

Abstract: Part One defends Rawls’s focus on basic social institutions, and his maximin idea, against the criticisms of Nozick and Sandel. Part Two critically develops Rawls’s criterion of justice — accommodating basic social and economic needs under the first principle; education, employment, and health care under the opportunity principle; and leisure under the difference principle. Part Three shows, on internal and external grounds, that Rawls’s conception must today apply to the world at large. Properly specified, Rawls’s criterion yields plausible priorities for global institutional reform and can help move international relations from modus vivendi toward overlapping consensus on values.